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MACHINE FOR INSULATING ELECTRIC OONDUGTORS. No. 285,672. Patented Sept. 25, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT O. PHILLIPS, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HOLMES, BOOTH 8t HAYDENS, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR INSULATING ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,672, dated September 25, 1883.

Application filed June 1, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HERBERT O. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Machines for Insulating Electric Conductors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object the ready coating of cotton-covered or braided wire with paint concurrently with the covering of the same with braid.

The operation of my device is as follows, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon: The wire a is passed up through the head of a braiding-machine, and a layer of cotton or other threads is placed upon the wire in the usual manner. The braiding head, with spools, is indicated at b. The covered wire now passes in at the bottom of the paint-vessel C through asuitable packing, d. This vessel C and the manner in which the covered wire is painted or coated by means of it constitute the main feature of my invention. This vessel C contains paint or other suitable coating material, .and as the covered wire passes up through the same at d the paint therein saturates the braid covering. ment admits of a second covering of braid being applied to the first covering of braid while the paint thereon is still wet, thereby forcing the paint into the interstices and pores of the braid and incorporating it thoroughly therein.

Another feature of my invention is the arrangement of the friction-rollers g g in the machine. The office of these rollers is to move the wire to the braiders. If these rollers are This arrangefor the same is an old and well-known process;

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WVhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wire-braiding machine, the vessel C, arranged to hold paint and to receive the braidcovered wire in a manner to cause it to pass through the paint, as herein shown and described.

2. In a wire-braiding machinehaving a double set of braiders, the paint-holding vessel C, placed between the braiders in such man ner that the wire, as it is braided in one set of bra-iders, will pass through the paint-vessel C, receive thereby a coating of the paint or other suitable material thereon, and then receive from the second set of braiders a second braiding upon the painted surface of the first braiding while the paint is still wet thereon, substantially as shown and described.

3. In combination with the paint-vessel C and the braiding mechanism, the friction-rollers g 5/, arranged to impingeupon the wire beforethe same is braided, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HERBERT O. PHILLIPS. Witnesses:

GEORGE W. McGILL, HENRY C. ADAMS. 

